Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
"You get to move your armies through our lands and attack our citizens and determine our religion" is not a treaty, thats a bill of sale.No it did not. Instead of beating his chest about how much of a badass he was and how other people could die for his beliefs.
The Emperor signed a treaty to give his armies time to rebuild and strengthen for the next war.
In real life you accept a setback to win a war.
France during WW2 and Germany at the end of WW1 were both conquered, failed states.Yes, but they were due for a realignment, and if it wasn't the Nazis, it would have been the Commies, or someone actually sane. I am pretty sure I mostly object to the comparison to France. As per the DB questline, the Empire is due for a change in leadership, and that would create a change in direction and the Emperor set himself up as a national martyr to rally around, rather than being a failed leader.